A reflection on Rosa Parks on her 100th birthday

On Feb. 4, I went to the Henry Ford Museum to play with the Lego exhibit with my family.

By Nicole Trierweiler

On Feb. 4, I went to the Henry Ford Museum to play with the Lego exhibit with my family.

While we were there we sat on a bus. It was the bus that Rosa Park's sat on. The bus is famous because she said she would not get up from her seat to sit in a different seat. That changed things.

Her skin was different so she was sitting in the wrong seat. When she didn't get up, the police came and took her off the bus. She was put in jail. All the other people with different colored skin didn't want to sit on the bus. That is called a boycott.

I was happy that when I sat on the bus, I didn't have to worry about were to sit, unless people were already sitting there. I noticed that other people with different colored skin didn't have to worry about where they should sit. I am happy that Rosa Parks was brave and that the rules about where to sit on buses were changed.

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NICOLE TRIERWEILER is 6 years old and loves her pet bunny rabbit named Snowflake. Since attending the Ionia County Peace Community's community supper honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., she has been fascinated by civil rights figures, and speaking out when she sees something wrong.